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“I was 9 when I got interested in waste management, thanks to a community service project that I took up in school. While the project got over, my interest remained, and I have continued to find solutions to the growing plastic problem.”

Now, crush plastic bottles at railway stations to recharge your phone. Pay for a meal with a bag of plastic waste. And fund your schooling by fighting pollution!

Have you ever eaten an ice cream in a coconut shell? Or chakna in pattal (leaf) bowls? To try it, check out these 5 Mumbai restaurants making the switch to sustainable serving ideas!

“Did you know that the conventional red clay bricks can be the cause of soil erosion? Our Wricks can help solve it. If we happen to sell 10 lakh of those, it will be able to recycle 2,50,000 kg of waste materials!”

Mohanta says that he also often goes to schools to talk to the students about reusing plastic bottles. He says, “I tell them that plastic takes forever to decompose and dumping it is of no use, so we should reuse them.”

To keep up the good work, the Municipal Corporation of the city has now taken a step towards eliminating single-use plastic cutlery not only in government offices but in food joints and private functions too.

“Rahul used to say 'I am fighting a battle I didn’t choose. But how I react to the circumstances is my choice and no one can take that from me.' Keeping his vision alive, I try to help cancer patients and their families,” says Rashi Yadav.

He received the award for developing an eco-friendly and low-cost material from LDPE waste plastics and blast furnace slag.

Children today are exposed to a lot more than we had access to, their questions and way of thinking also is different.

From making flags out of recycled paper to replacing plastic with steel bottles, Kerala is blazing a green trail in India’s largest exercise in democracy!